8.01-44.6 - Action for injury to cemetery property. - Virginia Statutes

§ 8.01-44.6. Action for injury to cemetery property.

The owner or operator of a cemetery company may bring an action to recoverdamages sustained, together with costs and reasonable attorneys' fees,against any person who willfully or maliciously destroys, mutilates, defaces,injures, or removes any tomb, monument, gravestone, or other structure placedwithin any cemetery, graveyard, or place of burial, or within any lotbelonging to any memorial or monumental association, or any fence, railing,or other work for the protection or ornament of any tomb, monument,gravestone, or other structure aforesaid, or of any cemetery lot within anycemetery. The cemetery owner or operator may recover, as part of damagessustained, the cost of repair or replacement of damaged property, includingany labor costs, regardless of whether the property damaged is owned by thecemetery or by another person.

(2004, c. 203.)